Tanizaki's Computational Methods in Statistics and Econometrics by GAUSS

1. Elements of Statistics

1.1 Event and Probability

1.2 Random Variable and Distribution

1.3 Mathematical Expectation

1.4 Transformof Variables

1.5 Moment-Generating Function

1.6 Law of large Numbers and Central Limit Theorem

1.7 Statistical Inference

1.8 Testing Hypothesis

1.9 Regression Analysis

I. Monte Carlo Statistical Methods

2. Random Number Generation I

2.1 Uniform Distribution: U(0,1)

2.2 Transforming U(0,1): Continuous Type

2.3 Inverse Transform Method

2.4 Using U(0,1): Discrete Type

2.5 Multivariate Distribution

3. Random Number Generation II

3.1 Composition Method

3.2 Rejection Sampling

3.3 Importance Resampling

3.4 Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm

3.5 Ratio-of-Uniforms Method

3.6 Gibbs Sampling

3.7 Comparison of Sampling Methods

II. Selected Applications of Monte Carlo Methods

4. Bayesian Estimation

4.1 Elements of Bayesian Inference

4.2 Heteriscedasticity Model

4.3 Autocorrelation Model

5. Bias Correction of OLSE in AR Models

5.1 Introduction

5.2 OLSE Bias

5.3 Bias Correction Method

5.4 Monte Carlo Experiments

5.5 Empirical Example

6. State Space Modeling

6.1 Introduction

6.2 State Space Models

6.3 Recursive Algorithm

6.4 Non-Recursive Algorithm

6.5 Monte Carlo Studies

6.6 Empirical Example

III. Nonparametric Statistical Methods

7. Difference Between Two-Samoke Means

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Overview of Nonparametric Tests

7.3 Asymptotic Relative Efficiency

7.4 Power Comparison(Small Sample Properties)

7.5 Empirical Example: Testing Structural Changes

8. Independence between Two Samples

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Nonparametric tests in Independence

8.3 Monte Carlo Experiments

8.4 Empirical Example


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